What homeowner has NOT felt “trapped” by a mortgage at some point in time?
Florida is still hot. Of course most coming from the north are able to pay cash for their new home which helps them a lot.
It would be curious to take this list...mesh it with drug abuse/crime, and see how the regions develop.
From the top ten....most have democratic mayors/city councils in charge.
Flagstaff (#9)? If you were looking for retirement options, this is a cold weather spot (unlike the southern half of the state).
“Come! Come to the city! We have museums and zoos and gourmet dining and theaters! We have many jobs! Come! Come and see what man can do! Come and see what Democrats can do!”
The DESIRE for more space was really a DESIRE to leave the cities that were rioting & burning everything they could see.
That has evolved into STEALING in groups like what happened at the Topanga Mall.
Interesting Georgia list, sure, but driven by population growth and wealth trends as well. The high cost of MONEY is dropping listings per my real estate broker friends.
Sandy Springs/ Roswell is now like what Buckhead USED to be, but WITHOUT the Atlanta crime. If ya got the money, and you like the almost city but it’s still a suburb lifestyle, it’s a really nice area. It’s also hard to tell where the borders between Sandy Springs, Roswell and Alpharetta begin and end. It’s the growth corridor up GA 400 / GA 9. No surprise there.
Athens-Clarke County is aka ‘greater University of Georgia’ metro. Lots of ‘affordable’ student housing gentrifying old areas and expanding to take over old cotton farms. Once again, housing starts there have plummeted there due to the cost of money, per the local press. A fact not mentioned so much in the press is that on-campus enrollment in the University System of Georgia has S L O W E D significantly or even dropped at some schools.
Gainesville GA is the Capitol city of my county - Hall County. Hall is a geographically large county. We live waaaay out west nearer to Dahlonega than Gainesville. Gainesville has revamped city-center with lots of shops and venues and has become a cool place, very trendy. The CITY of Gainesville trends blue, but outside Gainesville city limits, it’s solid red. Gainesville itself cannot grow west because Lake Lanier is in the way. We live on the west shore, northwest of the city - truly out in the country - woods, horse farms, pastures. You have to WANT to get to our house; you won’t likely accidentally find it. But I digress. Gainesville HAS had a lot of housing added to the east, pretty much all apartments, which is part of the county’s growth plan because Hall had so little rental property. Home sales/purchases did go to insane levels for a couple three years during the era of cheap money. But now, once again my realtor friends blame the slow down on the high cost of money.
I read this about Georgia and went “meh.”
It’s just like the media to try to frighten everyone with the normal real estate cycle.